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Early Addition: Sheep return to Governors Island for their summer job of eating invasive plants
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Published May 20, 2024
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Good Monday morning in New York City, where one guy isn't happy about spending $700 on a Knicks ticket yesterday.
Here's what else is happening:
- Leaked WhatsApp messages indicate that the KIND bar founder and several other wealthy political donors concerned about antisemitism had a Zoom call with Mayor Adams to discuss sending in the NYPD to stop campus protesters at Columbia.
- What if, instead of free curbside parking spots, New York City had a bunch of little curbside parks?
- "Swept Away," an Avett Brothers musical about an 1884 shipwreck, is coming to Broadway this fall.
- The portal to Dublin is back in action, with shorter hours and tightened security.
- The Times Square lactation cookie billboard is also back.
- Sheep from upstate New York will once again be summering on Governors Island, where they eat invasive plants.
- The MTA is selling limited edition Vampire Weekend MetroCards today.
- The Disneyland characters have voted to unionize.
- Rudy Giuliani has an Amazon gift registry for his 80th birthday.
- And finally, Paris 2024:
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